THE INNOV8

The 1.5Kg heavy Seagate Innov8 measures 208mm in length, 123.6mm in width and 36mm in height and as you can all see the rugged aluminum enclosure looks and feels "premium".

Since the Innov8 is a desktop hard disk drive we placed it right next to the HGST Touro Desk Pro 4TB and the WD My Book 1230 3TB models to see just how large it is.

The company name and drive capacity are both printed at the top of the enclosure.

Huge Design has placed a total of six layers on the exterior and these probably represent the 6 platters in the Archive HDD.

The country of manufacture is printed at the base of the enclosure along with several certification and warning logos.

A single USB 3.1 Type-C port is placed at the front of the enclosure (the power/error LED is placed on the opposite side).

For some strange reason (perhaps a longer cable wouldn't provide sufficient power to the drive?) Seagate bundles the drive with a 50cm long cable which at least with a desktop computer is not very practical.